A distant hinge suggests that the world is opening somewhere beyond the speaker's control or explanation.
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Far off, a hinge complains. The sound crosses the field without bringing a door. I wait for the opening. Nothing arrives. Still, the distance has changed— it now has somewhere to go.
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A silent shape outlasts the speaker's interpretive impatience and turns waiting into a form of encounter.
An object out of place becomes more truthful by refusing to return to where the speaker expects it.
A contemporary poem about the farther room, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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